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S

S (minuscule: s) is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced /ˈɛs/ ⓘ), plural esses.

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Alphabetical position
19
Associated graphs
s(x), sh, sz
Descendants
ſ · ß · Ƨ · Ꞅ · $
Development
Σ σ ς𐌔S s · 𐌔S s · S s
In Unicode
U+0053, U+0073
Language of origin
Latin language

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S

Nodes128
Edges127
Triples180
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015625
Components1

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related to Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets · 41
S → ALPHABETUM, Analecta, Antinoou, Arial Coptic, Armenian, Attic, Besides, Code2001, Coptic, Cyrillic, Damase, Es, FreeSans, FreeSerif, FreeSerifAvvaShenouda, Gothic, Greek, Greek Sigma, Junicode, Latin
related to Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet · 22
S → British, Foreign Bible Society, German Eszett, Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise, Insular SꟖ, IPA, IPA-specific, It, Latin, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese, Middle ScotsꟘ, Modifier, Oaxaca, Sigmoid, Small, Subscript, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Used, Various
Sisters · 20
S → Ѕ ѕ, С с, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ҫ ҫ, Ԍ ԍ, Ս ս, ש, س, ش, ܫ, ࠔ, श, स, શ, સ, ሠ, ㅅ (disputed), 𐎘, 𐡔
related to Long s · 19
S → Carolingian, Encyclopædia Britannica's, His, In, In English, In France, In Spain, It, John Bell, Late Antiquity, London, Printers, September, Shakespeare, The, The Times, United States, Visigothic, Western
related to history · 13
S → Ancient Greek, Dorians, Greek, Herodotus, Ionians, It, Northwest Semitic, Phoenician, Samekh, Sigma, The, While, Within Greek
Descendants · 10
S → $, §, ß, ſ, Ƨ, ᛋ, ₷, ℠, ∫, Ꞅ
related to External links · 7
S → Media, The New Student's Reference, Wikimedia Commons The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary The, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, Work
Sound values · 6
S → [s], [ts], [z], [ʃ], [ʒ], [θ]
related to Computing · 5
S → CAPITAL LETTER SU, FF33SFULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER, FF53sFULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER, SMALL LETTER SU, SU
related to Derived signs, symbols, and abbreviations · 5
S → Dollar, Integral, Section, Service, Spesmilo

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letter latin used english alphabet sigma voiceless greek represents long alphabets alveolar sibilant also german western phonetic ipa early strokes

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SAlphabetical position191.00infobox
SAssociated graphss(x), sh, sz1.00infobox
SDescendantsſ1.00infobox
SDescendantsß1.00infobox
SDescendantsƧ1.00infobox
SDescendants1.00infobox
SDescendants$1.00infobox
SDescendants1.00infobox
SDescendants§1.00infobox
SDescendants1.00infobox
SDescendants1.00infobox
SDescendants1.00infobox
SDevelopmentΣ σ ς𐌔S s1.00infobox
SDevelopment𐌔S s1.00infobox
SDevelopmentS s1.00infobox
SIn UnicodeU+0053, U+00731.00infobox
SLanguage of originLatin language1.00infobox
SSistersЅ ѕ1.00infobox
SSistersС с1.00infobox
SSistersШ ш1.00infobox
SSistersЩ щ1.00infobox
SSistersҪ ҫ1.00infobox
SSistersԌ ԍ1.00infobox
SSistersש1.00infobox
SSistersش1.00infobox
SSistersܫ1.00infobox
SSistersس1.00infobox
SSisters1.00infobox
SSisters𐎘1.00infobox
SSisters𐡔1.00infobox

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